THE WEEKLY DISPATCH The conversations, posts, and questions worth paying attention to this week. Community supporter · Sponsored Sam + Lottie Aldarwish Carpenter · South West NS Full gut renovations move in sequence: structural, rough-ins, inspections, insulation, drywall, finishes. Most buyers budget for finishes and underestimate everything above them. Budget 20–25% contingency - and more timeline than feels necessary. Beam & Birch buys neglected homes, restores them, and lists them and...
10 days ago • 2 min read
My community keeps pulling me back into the real, raw emotional stuff. They want to say it out loud. They want to feel like it's allowed. So here it is: you are allowed to love Nova Scotia and grieve what you left behind at the same time. You are allowed to be someone who made the right choice and still feel the cost of it. Two things can be true, and this community has space for all of them. Being in the garden this spring has me thinking about transplanting. Some plants take to new soil...
17 days ago • 4 min read
THE WEEKLY DISPATCH Top posts and things of interest from this week Hi, You've been getting The Landing from me. Stories from people who chose Nova Scotia. This is the other one. The Dispatch goes out on alternating weeks. It's a straightforward update: what's been happening in the group, and the most recent posts from the blog. That's it. This week I asked the group what's been harder than expected. One hundred people answered. The thread is still going. Recent articles The Sight Unseen...
24 days ago • 1 min read
THE QUESTION Five years in and I'm still trying to figure out if I'm a Nova Scotian yet. I asked a question in the group this week. Not as a poll, not as a prompt to get people talking. Just as the actual question I woke up with on a May morning, standing in the greenhouse with 25 strawberry plants and mud on my boots and three kids who had just helped me shove 55 very unintelligent meat chickens back into their coop. These were things I used to dream about in Ontario. Things I knew I...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
The move to Nova Scotia is rarely a single decision. It's a slow build and a sudden leap. You think about it for years, maybe decades. You visit once and something catches. You come back. You tell yourself you're just curious. Then one day you're in the car with your dogs ( or kids) and a blow-up mattress, driving through a blizzard toward something you can't quite explain yet. That's the story that keeps showing up in our community. Not the logistics, not the listings, not the market...
about 1 month ago • 7 min read
You may notice things look a little different. This newsletter is The Landing now. Still fromaway.ca, same stories, new name. The fun thing about managing this community is these aren't just posts and comments to me. These are human stories and connections that happen online but not alone. Somewhere in-between it all, a poet and a lodge owner found each other through a thread about butchers. Here's what was happening. THE VILLAGE This was the thread that hit the deepest this week. A woman in...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
FromAway Newsletter FromAway.ca · Newsletter fromaway.ca What the group has beentalking about Two weeks of conversations, distilled. All data and conversations in this newsletter comes directly from our 14,000+ member Facebook group, From Away To Nova Scotia. Real people, real moves, real numbers. Over the past two weeks, a few threads stood out -- not because they were unusual, but because they kept circling the same things from different directions. Why people are choosing Nova Scotia right...
2 months ago • 5 min read
Issue #1 What's actually happening in the group right now Hey, This is my first newsletter and I'm really glad you're here. I started the From Away community because I was looking for other people who had done what I did. Moving here was hard in ways I wasn't prepared for, and I felt it. If you don't have a 902 number, it can be genuinely difficult to get someone in Nova Scotia to pick up the phone. The whole idea was to connect people who felt lost in the process with real...
3 months ago • 3 min read